Hi Keith.
Much like a dog, compliance is not just for Christmas - it's for life.
There will be a downsizing of "new" project work, but all companies will need to keep some skills and process in-house.
Also, there will be companies who wish to extend their customer-base into NA, and therefore need to be SOX compliant to trade effectively.
Having walked this path, I am firmly convinced there are not that many resources yet in Europe who can claim more than one (if that! effective SOX implementation.
Plenty of people who know about general compliance, but they are using hammers to drive in screws - it kind of works, but not in the most effective way...
Nic

From my point of view there will still be a lot of stuff to do! Even if call companies will be Ready for Sox or european regulations, we still have to work on internal control mechanism etc. Authorisations and Security "are always alive"... so don't worry

hey guys we can use our unique skills to serve in good 'Internal audit'
projects here in Europe which is now a spree at least in UK :)
Opportunities that I can envisage surely are in: Project audit, BPO
migration audits, Internal control frameworks audits - and SOX is baseline
whilst performing these audits.
Best
Rakesh